Sonia Appasamy
Member Of Technical Staff at Tailscale
New York, New York, United States
Summary
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Top SchoolSonia Appasamy is a pragmatic software engineer with 11 years of experience building production systems, currently a Member of Technical Staff at Tailscale where she contributes to back-end networking features for a high-profile WireGuard-based product. A Cornell CS graduate who began her career bridging research and impact, she founded the university chapter of Hack4Impact and has applied computer vision and mobile apps to social-good projects like tracking fashion trends and reducing youth relational aggression. Her background includes Forward Deployed engineering at Palantir and full-stack work on HIPAA-compliant telemedicine tools, demonstrating comfort across distributed systems, security-conscious services, and product-facing engineering. Notably, her open-source contributions at Tailscale focus on refining node metadata and service-upload logic—small but critical changes that improve network configuration fidelity and observability.
11 years of coding experience
5 years of employment as a software developer
Bachelor of Science - BS College of Engineering - Computer Science, Bachelor of Science - BS College of Engineering - Computer Science at Cornell University
Github Skills (5)
network-configuration10
go10
vpn10
wireguard10
tailscale10
Programming languages (7)
Github contributions (5)
tailscale/tailscale
Nov 2020 - Oct 2022
The easiest, most secure way to use WireGuard and 2FA.
Role in this project:
Back-end Developer
Back-end DeveloperContributions:2 releases, 396 reviews, 9 commits in 1 year 11 months
Contributions summary:Sonia's commits primarily focused on enhancing the Tailscale configuration and local backend logic. They introduced the inclusion of ShieldsUp status within HostInfo, and then modified the local backend to incorporate the `ShieldsUp` and `CollectServices` settings when uploading service information. Additionally, the user implemented functionality to send services information in Hostinfo, and refactored code related to display names and other node metadata. Their work demonstrates a focus on refining network configuration details and the information passed around the network.
secureprivacysecurityvpnwireguard
soniaappasamy/tailscale-grafana-quick-deploy
Sep 2021 - Aug 2022
Contributions:3 commits, 17 pushes, 1 branch in 11 months
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